U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Miller, William Edmund (1822-1911) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: West Virginia and Its People Author: Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913 Volume II, Pages 149-150 William Edmund Miller, son of James and Sarah (Messenger) Miller, was born at Morgantown, Virginia, now West Virginia, July 29, 1822, died at Fairmont, November 19, 1911. He was reared principally at Greensboro, Pennsylvania, where he received his education at a private school. He learned the trade of cooper of his father, which he followed until 1841, when he engaged in the manufacture of handrolls for domestic spinning of cloths and flannels, at Barnesville. Five years later he turned his attention to the flouring mill business, which he conducted up to 1863, in which year he secured the flouring mill at Nuzum's Mill, where he remained two years. At the end of that time he returned to Barnesville, where he managed the woolen mills of the Barnesville Manufacturing Company until 1888, being a director and serving as president of that company. Politically Mr. Miller was a staunch Republican, and an official in the Methodist Protestant church, a teacher in the Sunday- school fifty-seven years or more, as well as its captain of a Marion county volunteer militia company that offered its services to the country during the Mexican war, but was not called into active service. On October 21, 1847, Mr. Miller married Nancy Jeretta, daughter of Thomas Hall, a prominent citizen of the county and an upright Christian gentleman. She died August 19, 1907. Thomas Hall was born in Delaware, January 11, 1779, and was brought by his father, Asa Hall, to the Forks of Cheat river in 1782. He was ordained a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church in 1815, at Morgantown, Virginia, and later purchased a farm near Houlttown, on which he erected a flouring mill in 1828. He died of erysipelas July 28, 1869. He was twice married, (first) to Jane Bennett, 1799, and (second) Elizabeth Stewart, 1813. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller were born six children: Professor Thomas Condit Miller, of whom further; Charles Albert, a teacher; Anna Belle, a teacher; Buena Vista; Richard S., now deceased; Mattie A. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1910 Census, Marion County WV ED:56, Sheet 20B Fairmont District, Barnestown Village Lines 97-100, Dwelling 320, Family 339 1329 Pike Street MILLER, William (head), 87, widow, WV-CT-CT ", Charles A (bro) 58, WV-CT-CT, Shipper, Woolen Mills ", Annie B (sis) 56, WV-CT-CT ", Buena (sis) 54, WV-CT-CT, Sample maker, at-home 1900 Census, Marion County, WV ED: 49, Sheet 6A Fairmont District Lines 2-6, Dwelling 108, Family 100 MILLER, William E (head) 77, b.July-1822, mar-6-yrs, WV-WV-WV, Grocer-man ", Nancy J (wife) 76, b.July-1823, m-6-yrs, 6-children/3-living, WV-WV-WV ", Charles A (son) 48, b-Apr-1852, WV-WV-WV, Woolen Mill Prop ", Buena V (dau) 46, b.1854, WV-WV-WV ", Mattie A (dau) 37, b.1863, WV-WV-WV 1880 Census, Marion County, WV ED:86, Page No. 4 Fairmont Ind. School District Lines 16-22, Dwelling 35, Family 35 MILLER, William E. (head) 58, Works in Woolen Mill, Va-Ct-Ct ", Nancy J (wife) 57, Keeping house, Va-Del-Va ", Charles A (son) Blacksmith, Va-Va-Va ", Annie B (dau) 23, School Teacher, Va-Va-Va ", Buena V (dau) 22, Va-Va-Va ", Richard L (son) 21, School Teacher, Va-Va-Va ", Mattie A (dau) Va-Va-Va 1870 Census, Marion County, WV Fairmont Township, Page No. 4 Lines 17-24, Dwelling 29, Family 29 MILLER, William, 47, ??? factory, $3000/$150, Delaware ", Nancy J, 46, Keeping house, Virginia ", Thomas C, 21, School Teacher, Virginia ", Charles A, 18, without occupation, Virginia ", Anna B, 15, Attending school, Virginia ", Buena V, 13, Attending school, Virginia ", Richard S, 11, Attending School, Virginia ", Mattie, 6, at home, Virginia ---------------------------------------------------------------------